Assyria and Babylonia contrasted
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- See also: Category:Babylonia and Category:Assyria.
The sister-states of Babylonia and Assyria differed essentially in character. Babylonia was a land of merchants and agriculturists; Assyria was an organized camp. The Assyrian dynasties were founded by successful generals; in Babylonia it was the priests whom a revolution raised to the throne. The Babylonian king remained a priest to the last, under the control of a powerful hierarchy; the Assyrian king was the autocratic general of an army, at whose side stood in early days a feudal nobility, aided from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III onwards by an elaborate bureaucracy. His palace was more sumptuous than the temples of the gods, from which it was quite separate. The people were soldiers and little else; even the sailor belonged to the state. Hence the sudden collapse of Assyria when drained of its fighting population in the age of Assur-bani-pal.
See also
- History of Babylonia and Assyria:
- Sumer
- History of Sumer
- Akkadian Empire
- Gutian period
- 3rd dynasty of Ur "Sumerian Renaissance"
- Babylonia
- Assyria
- Kings of Babylon
- Kings of Assyria
- Geography of Babylonia and Assyria
- Assyro-Babylonian culture
